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A New York Times Notable Book and Hugo and Nebula Award Finalist: This epic chronicle of ten immortals over the course of history. The immortals are ten individuals born in antiquity from various cultures. Immune to disease, able to heal themselves from injuries, they will never die of old age-although they can fall victim to catastrophic wounds. They have walked among mortals for millennia, traveling across the world, trying to understand their special...
562) Longbow Girl
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The stunningly written start to an exciting new trilogy about a smart, strong, bold girl who travels back in time to protect her family's past and ensure its future using her archery skills.
Set in the wilds of the Welsh mountains, the brave and beautiful longbow girl, Merry Owen, discovers a river that takes her back in time to the autocratic kingdom of King Henry VIII. While there she finds she must compete in an archery tournament to save her...
564) Timediver's Dawn
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English
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Witchcraft and high technology coexist in a world starved of natural energy resources and forced to mine the plentiful energy emitted by the sun.
565) Time Rift
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Duff Roman and Z-Crew are trapped in an impossible situation-time itself is coming apart at the seams, and they suspect the key rests with one girl: Horizon.The problem? Horizon is the long-sought-after daughter of their nemesis, Ravenne. She stopped at nothing to retrieve her daughter from the past. Now it's clear sending Horizon back is the only way to repair the rift, but Ravenne won't let her go.The underground artifact where they accidentally...
566) When the Day Comes
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Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other without any time passing. She has one conscious mind but two very different lives and bodies.
In colonial Williamsburg, Libby is a public printer for the House of Burgesses and the Royal Governor, trying to provide for her family and support the Patriot cause....
567) Jumpback
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He's haunted by his turbulent past. When an attempted kidnapping leaves him with unexpected powers, can he use them to unlock the truth? Jackson Traine hasn't recovered from losing his brother. Reluctantly moving back to Washington to teach college, the psychologist freezes when he recognizes one of his sibling's killers in his classroom. And after a fight with a gang member in a particle accelerator lab, an accidental electrocution gifts the frightened...
568) Holmes Coming
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Dr. Amy Winslow tells the story: in foggy, nighttime San Francisco a jogging SFPD captain is savagely attacked by a Bengal tiger which then vanishes. In her ER, Amy labors unsuccessfully to save the captain's life, then consoles his aggrieved closest friend, Lt. Luis Ortega. Neither suspects their lives will intertwine in a life-or-death mystery.
The next day, checking on former patient Mrs. Hudson at her Victorian house isolated in Marin County's...
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Little Island
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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You're caught in a time loop and there's only one way out. You have to call out your best friend. Spence hates Anthony's sexist jokes, but he never says anything. Anthony's his buddy, and Spence doesn't have many. One Friday, Spence finds Anthony assaulting their classmate, Clara Hart, at a party. Clara flees from the house, is hit by a car, and dies. But the next day, it's Friday again and Clara is alive. Caught in a time-loop, Spence finds himself...
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Data Set volume 2
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
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First Little Simon paperback edition.
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English
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Thanks to Dr. Bunsen's latest wacky invention, second-graders Gabriel, Laura, and Caesar, aka the DATA Set, are blasted back to the prehistoric era, where they quickly find themselves dashing from flying pterosaurs, stomping stegosaurus stampedes, and a sharp-toothed T-rex.
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Anaya
Pub. Date
2016.
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1a. edición.
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Español
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Maisie uses the watch her grandmother gave her to travel to Renaissance Florence where she meets the young Leonardo da Vinci and his friends and attends a festival at a Medici villa while encouraging Leonardo to be true to his artist's calling.
572) Triptych
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Short Fuse Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Part District 9. Part Lost in Translation. Part Stranger in a Strange Land.Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards and named one of Publisher's Weekly's Best Books of the Year.Kalp is a widower, burdened with an unimaginable grief, who escaped his dying world with nothing but his own life and a half-finished toy for a child that will now never be born.Gwen is a language expert covertly recruited for a United Nations plan to integrate...
573) Rome Reframed
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North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Lucas Duran has been on the trip of a lifetime—six months traveling through Europe with his parents and two younger brothers. That is, the trip of a lifetime for someone else. Lucas wants nothing more than to be home in Austin, Texas, with his friends, and it shows in his schoolwork that he’s been emailing to his teachers. He can't wait to get out of Rome, the last stop on their trip.<br> <br> When his teachers give him an ultimatum—either...
574) The Sword of Aradel
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Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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To save his kingdom, a stable boy steps through a portal to the future
When the duke dies, the evil wizard Albericus presents his heir with the sword of Aradel, a magical blade whose owner can never be bested in combat. Brian, the stable boy, has no interest in politics until the day that he spills a water trough onto the new duke’s horse and finds the sword of Aradel pointed at his throat. He picks up his quarterstaff,
...When the duke dies, the evil wizard Albericus presents his heir with the sword of Aradel, a magical blade whose owner can never be bested in combat. Brian, the stable boy, has no interest in politics until the day that he spills a water trough onto the new duke’s horse and finds the sword of Aradel pointed at his throat. He picks up his quarterstaff,
575) No True Echo
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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“This playful time-bending saga twists in, out, and around [and] introduces heady ideas about memory, reality, and existence.” —Publishers Weekly
Eddie thinks nothing ever happens in his small, boring town. Every day is exactly the same, down to what the bus driver will say when he picks each kid up in the morning. But then, one day, someone new, and very pretty, walks onto the bus. At least, Eddie
...Eddie thinks nothing ever happens in his small, boring town. Every day is exactly the same, down to what the bus driver will say when he picks each kid up in the morning. But then, one day, someone new, and very pretty, walks onto the bus. At least, Eddie
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One of the founding fathers of science fiction, H. G. Wells is known for such landmark novels as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau. In When the Sleeper Wakes, he sends a nineteenth-century man hurtling into an unfamiliar dystopian future…
In 1890s England, Graham, a fanatic socialist and author of prophetic writings, takes medication for his insomnia and is plunged into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. He awakens in a domed...
577) The artifact hunters
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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During World War II, a Czechoslovakian Jewish boy is sent to northern Scotland to live in a castle that houses gifted children who are learning to harness their magical powers to support the Allies' cause.
578) The last magician
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Last magician volume 1
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English
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In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.
579) Gravity Wave: Book 2
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English
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Prepare for an interstellar battle of epic proportions in this gripping alien invasion thriller from the master of mayhem, USA Today Bestselling Author Jay J. Falconer.
Revolutionary Technology. Risky Experiments. Interstellar War...
Lucas Ramsay, a visionary scientist, believed his groundbreaking reactor would unlock the secrets of deep space and propel humanity into a new era of exploration. Little did he know that his anti-gravity device would...
580) Steel Magic
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Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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A girl and her two brothers are transported back to the time of King Arthur, where they must return three magic talismans to their rightful owners or remain trapped forever in the distant past. The adventure begins when Sara Lowry wins a picnic basket at the Firemen's Strawberry Festival. She and her brothers, Greg and Eric, are staying with their uncle at his Hudson Valley estate while their parents are in Japan. Fascinated by the haunting history...
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